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Traffic slowed to a crawl on a small stretch of the Thunder Bay Expressway Tuesday as Fort William First Nations community members continued to fight the pending harmonized sales tax.

It may have been the worst-kept secret in the city, but the former StarTek call centre in Victoriaville Mall is empty no longer. Less than four months after the company abandoned the location, on Tuesday the city announced that P.E.I.

A future federal Liberal government will bring high-speed Internet to every rural, remote and Northern community across Canada announced Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff Tuesday morning in Thunder Bay.

The president of the Ontario Forest Industries Association says now is not the time for tenure reform, calling the province’s recently released proposal one more challenge the hard-hit industry must overcome to land on its feet.

The Port of Thunder Bay is witnessing a promising start to its shipping season.

City council has referred approval of the 2010 sidewalk and street lighting projects to next week after residents of North High Street opposed the location of a new sidewalk in their area Monday night.

A proposed $35-million energy tax credit for Northern Ontarians is not nearly enough to cancel out the increased costs taxpayers will face when the harmonized sales tax comes into effect on July 1, says provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath.

A weekend sweep by local police has resulted in several prostitution arrests. The Thunder Bay Police Focused Enforcement Team, Intelligence Unit and Community Response team, along with the OPP, conducted the joint action Friday and Saturday nights.

More than 700,000 students across Canada in more than 2,000 schools participated in Music Monday May 3, but Woodcrest Public School might be the only one that can boast being accompanied by their principal on drums.

Police continue to look for the man who robbed a local credit union with a handgun late last week. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say the man entered the Apple Credit Union on North Cumberland Street shortly after 2 p.m. Friday.